The Maples stories
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Author
Publication
2009 - Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
64,000 words, Guess
Page Count
256 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivemaplesstories0000updi
- ISBN-101841596035
- ISBN-100307271765
- ISBN-139780307271761
- ISBN-139781841596037
and 5 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2009281275
- OCLC Control Number276339234
- Better World Books9781841596037
- Better World Books9780307271761
- Open LibraryOL24003272M
Classifications
- LCCPS3571.P4 M37 2009
- LCCPS3571.P4
- LCCPS3571.P4 M27 2009
and 1 more
- LCCPS3571.P4 M26 2009
Description
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Collected together for the first time in hardcover, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity.In 1956, Updike published a story, "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage. Over the next two decades, he returned to these characters again and again, tracing their years together raising children, finding moments of intermittent happiness, and facing the heartbreak of infidelity and estrangement. Seventeen Maples stories were collected in 1979 in a paperback edition titled Too Far to Go, prompted by a television adaptation. Now those stories appear in hardcover for the first time, with the addition of a later story, "Grandparenting," which returns us to the Maples's lives long after their wrenching divorce.From the Hardcover edition.
Description
"In 1956, Updike published a story, "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage. Over the next two decades, he returned to these characters again and again, tracing their years together raising children, finding and losing moments of romantic rapport, and facing the heartbreak of infidelity and estrangement. Now these stories appear in a single volume in hardcover for the first time, with the addition of a later story, "Grandparenting," which returns us to the Maples long after their wrenching divorce. Together, The Maples Stories offers a nuanced portrait of a flawed marriage between two sympathetic, well-intentioned practitioners of twentieth-century family life."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Genres
- Fiction
Series Statement
- Everyman's pocket classics
Other Editions
- The Maples stories
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